Its Time. Get Rid of 1/10 Cent Gasoline Pricing!

Parasite, you can't be serious!
It comes as no surprise that you are incorrect once again.

The word 'Democrat' as used in American history was/is definitely an epithet
and it refers to 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses.

the initial identification of the colonial population as "Americans" came from English writers who used the term negatively, as a way of referring to a marginal or peripheral population unworthy of equal status with full-blooded Englishmen back at the metropolitan center of the British Empire. The word was uttered and heard as an insult that designated an inferior or subordinate people. The entire thrust of the colonists' justification for independence was to reject that designation on the grounds that they possessed all the rights of British citizens. And the ultimate source of these rights did not lie in any indigenously American origins, but rather in a transcendent realm of natural rights allegedly shared by all men everywhere. At least at the level of language, then, we need to recover the eighteenth-century context of things and not read back into those years the hallowed meanings they would acquire over the next century. The term American, like the term democrat, began as an epithet, the former referring to an inferior, provincial creature, the latter to one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses. At both the social and verbal levels, in short, an American nation remained a precarious and highly problematic project—at best a work in progress.

Do you know where I can buy gas at $3.989 per gal.

gas at 3.989 will draw more customers than gas at 3.999.
Your arguments make no sense okie.

Some are now saying gas prices will drop back down to $3.50 per gallon in a month or so.

H2O MAN wrote:

Some are now saying gas prices will drop back down to $3.50 per gallon in a month or so.

And those saying that really mean $3.51 per gallon essentially, because $3.50 9/10 cents is virtually the same as $3.51. Your comment underscores why we need more honesty and ethics in pricing.

The point is that if gasoline had to be priced in whole cents per gallon, the retailer can go one of two ways, they can raise their price 1/10 of a cent, for example from $3.69 and 9/10 cent to $3.70 per gallon, which is what it essentially was anyway. However, due to competition, somebody across the street or down the street will probably price their gasoline at $3.69 per gallon, perhaps by dropping their price 9/10 of a cent. As a result, they will sell alot more gasoline at $3.69 than their competitor will at $3.70. It is my opinion that a more honest and ethical pricing atmosphere will create a more healthy competitiveness in pricing.

Gas prices are one place where there is already very healthy competition in pricing. I don't see any way forcing a pricing structure change will change that for better or worse.

I've known people that will drive 35 miles to another town to buy gas at a penny a gallon less

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I've known people that will drive 35 miles to another town to buy gas at a penny a gallon less

Are you being honest about that?

Thing is, this isn't really a very important issue